The winners of the 17th Annual Communicator Awards have been announced by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts, and Matcha Design is proud to receive awards for six projects. "This year’s awards program was highly competitive with many remarkable entries," said...
A couple weeks ago I detailed some things that can keep your website from living up to its potential. In part 2, I focus heavily on user interaction, highlighting some common problems that are usually a result of focusing priority on the wrong goals (i.e. anything...
Every developer needs some reference now and then. Whether you're dealing with a new problem you've never encountered before, learning a new scripting language, or you just can't remember which function you need, these web sites will help you get the job done. 1....
Before you can break into the realm of having a great website, you have to make sure you have one that isn't annoying. Even a great design can be ruined by a simple blunder influenced by over enthusiasm. Here are a few things you'll want to avoid when designing and...
As promised, this week I'm continuing my list of common mistakes, but moving from HTML to the realm of CSS. The rules are a little different with CSS, as you'll see, but I'm still not going to tell you that you shouldn't use perfectly valid practices just because of...
Mostly I've been pointing out things that you can do with HTML, CSS, YouTube videos, jQuery, etc. But now I'd like to point out things you should NOT do. Some common mistakes in HTML, and next week I'll probably tackle CSS mistakes. In researching similar articles, I...
This is a continuation from last week's tutorial 5 URL Parameters to Improve Your YouTube Embedding – Part 1. Remember that I'm going to assume that you're using the embed URL format (http://www.youtube.com/v/Sla2VebjkQk), rather than the link format...
There are many benefits to using YouTube to embed videos. It speeds up user access to the video while reducing bandwidth consumption on your own hosting, and it's a widely familiar interface with many features built in. There are several ways to customize the behavior...
WordPress is a very popular blog management system, and with good reason. It's a well-documented and easy-to-use blog platform with thousands of plugins and themes, and best of all, it's free. But if you want your blog to stand out from the other over 60 million...
It's been a while since web designers were truly forced to use a small collection of fonts in order to have a fairly consistent experience, but too few designers have taken advantage of the numerous ways to provide custom fonts to their users. With that in mind, here...
Matcha Design is excited to announce the new introduction video for Nian En Church, a Chinese evangelical church, located in Hong Kong. We have done many videos for churches in the United States in the past, but this is the first one we have done for a client in...
Matcha Design announced that they have been awarded fourteen awards by the 7th Annual Service Industry Advertising Awards (SIAA). "This is fantastic news." said Chris Lo, President and Creative Director of Matcha Design, regarding the collection of awards. "To kick...